In a message dated 6/7/2005 6:57:27 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
According to your metric, probably 99.9% of companies worldwide are "grossly irresponsible". I'm not defending them, I'm just saying that in 2005 almost no one encrypts tapes. Citigroup is a big company, don't know if we're seeing a pattern of missing data from Financial companies or just more reported missing data. UPS really is a tightly run shipper. If they lost something important it probably wasn't an accident. CNN reports a joint Citi/UPS task force in conjunction with the FEDS to investigate as the notifications and identifications continue. The best place to encrypt is at the source. Lacking that we're looking at track copies of images on DASD. If it wasn't encrypted to start with it's not encrypted on the backup. At present there's not a fungible compromise with hardware and software. The new FDRCrypt stuff may be really hot, but you better have a plan. Guess I can visualize instances of encrypted tapes unreadable by anything but the originating system. Which may or may not be available. While we're here, don't be too dependent on the 'Floor system' at you D/R. As convenient as it is, it also may not be there or your company has contracted for 'as available' service and in a large disaster may not have access to D/R where you've practiced. Guess I've told the Omaha story before. Large Insurance company had their own D/R 6 miles away. Late one Friday afternoon lightning hit an ammonium nitrate truck-32,000 lbs went WHOOM in between the two centers! Few broken windows, but no structural damage. Later in the evening during the backups-the internal bearings on the SLEDs started to fail. Nine days later after depleting North American bearing supply-were back on-line. what's plan B? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
